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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN a guide for Global Leadership


Okay, I have been searching and searching for the youtubers of the country to upload the video of Barack Obama's response to the reporters asking Barack if he wanted to respond to Hillary Clinton's use of his kindergarten "essay" on his political ambition to be President in the future. But so far, nothing. I would love to be one of those youtubers who know how to edit and upload ~ but until that happens, I am at the mercy of the timely submissions of others. So would someone, pppleazzz post it?

Do you remember the book referred to below? I borrowed the text below from an online source which I found by typing in the book's title into my window.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:
  • Share everything.
  • Play fair.
  • Don't hit people.
  • Put things back where you found them.
  • Clean up your own mess.
  • Don't take things that aren't yours.
  • Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
  • Wash your hands before you eat.
  • Flush.
  • Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
  • Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
  • Take a nap every afternoon.
  • When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
  • Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
  • Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
  • And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

End of borrowed text.

I still have my kindergarten report card. It is funny. The only weakness that I was cited for was the use of a handkerchief. You know a kleenex. What a riot!

Now, as I was looking for the unloaded youtube mentioned above, I found this. Watch it to the end ~ it is interesting. I don't watch CNN, but found this pretty balanced reporting. I don't know if it really is important enough for them to have sent a reporter to Barack's Indonesian kindergarten school, but here goes.....

CNN report on Senator Obama's Indonesian school
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=S-kPCCog0BY
"The school isn't an Islamic madrassah ~ as some Obama foes charge..."

Where did the other candidates go to kindergarten?

How many reporters has CNN sent to Darfur?

Call 1~800~GENOCIDE
this week
and ask your U.S. Representative to pass the funding fully
for the UN Peacekeepers for
Darfur

Thank You!


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